The First 100 Days As CIO
Your first three months on the job are the ultimate predictor of your long-term success. Understand what to prioritize when everything is a priority.
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Please note that the content on this page is retired. This content is not maintained and may contain information or links that are out of date.Without a 100-day plan in place, the CIO may:
- Lack a clear path forward in establishing themselves as a leader.
- Fail to impress key business stakeholders, impacting their willingness to buy in to the new leader’s vision.
- Fall into the trap of analysis paralysis, where competing streams of information overwhelm and prevent any meaningful progress or actions being taken.
Early preparation and a well-crafted 100-day plan will:
- Demonstrate your preparedness for a role in the C-suite and your capability as a leader.
- Understand the needs and challenges of your key stakeholders.
- Identify early wins that will help build trust in your ability to get things done.
- Advance your strategic value within the organization.
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Module 1: Develop a Leadership Mandate and Value Statements
The Purpose
- Distill your stakeholder expectations and desired target state into a vision and set of values that the business can expect from IT.
- Prerequisite: Requires completed stakeholder analysis and clearly defined expectations/KPIs.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Communicate a compelling vision of what the future state of IT will look like.
- Identify a set of values for the IT organization that will define a set of behaviors the business can expect.
- Socialize your future direction with the larger organization to gain buy-in and feedback.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 1.1 | Review communicated expectations as CIO. |
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| 1.2 | Review organizational priorities and in-flight commitments. |
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| 1.3 | Craft vision and value statements that align with your mandate as CIO. |
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Module 2: Early Win Identification
The Purpose
- Identify potential quick wins that will align with your expectations as a CIO, have high visibility, and help you gain your key stakeholders's trust in your ability to deliver.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Map out your key initiatives based off your stakeholder interviews and assessments.
- Analyze the initiatives based on visibility, effort, and risk to determine which early wins to schedule in your first 100 days.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Map your initiatives to determine their ratio of effort to impact. |
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| 2.2 | Further map your quick wins in terms of organizational visibility and risk of failure. |
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| 2.3 | Finalize selection of your early win initiatives. |
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